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THE OOLOGIST 



Red-winged BlackTaird 2 study of the mysteries of bird migra- 



Southern Meadowlark 3 tion, there is no better vantage point 



Brewer's Blackbird 22 than along the shore of Lake Ontario. 



Rusty Blackbird 5 It is the main line of flight, the aerial 



Florida Grackle G highway of both land and water birds 



Boat-tailed Grackle fi in going to and returning from their 



Baird's Sparrow 5 nesting grounds to the north. Some 



Western Lark Sparrow 1 species of land birds fly directly 



White-throated Sparrow 12 across the lake, but the great bulk of 



Song Sparrow 7 them follow closely along the shore. 



Towhee 2 In the Spring their flight is from West 



Gray-tailed Cardinal 11 to East, and in the Fall it is the re- 

 Purple Martin 5 verse. 



Bank Swallow 5 "There are over two hundred spe- 



White-eyed Vireo 7 cies of birds which may be looked 



Black and White Warbler 4 for regularly along the lake during 



Western Parula Warbler 3 the time of migration, besides about 



Myrtle Warble 7 twenty other species which may oc- 



Sycamore Warbler 4 cassionally be found, and twelve 



Black-throated Green Warbler 2 which have been recorded but a few 



Pine Warbler 4 times, and are very rare. Then, also. 



Northern Yellow-throat 3 there is always the possibility of find- 

 Pipit 3 ing something new. 



Mockingbird 17 There is but a short period between 



Brown Thrasher 2 the time when ice first begins to show 



Carolina Wren 3 signs of breaking up in the Spring 



Bewick Wren 1 and the freezing again in the late Fall 



House Wren 2 ^'nt what some species of birds are 



White-breasted Nuthatch 1 migrating. Hardly have the late 



Brown-headed Nuthatch 2 Spring migrants all passed north be- 



Tufted Titmouse 13 fore some species are beginning to 



Plumeous Chickadee 7 return on their southern journey. 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet 19 The past Spring the Loons were still 



Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 seen on the lake up to the fifteenth 



Hermit Thrush 2 of June. The bulk of the Ring-billed 



Robin 1 and Herring Gulls did not leave until 



Bluebird 4 about the twentieth of June. By the 



first of July the Bronze Grackles were 



54 Species 261 beginning to be seen in small flocks, 



Finlay Simmons. ^nd by the eleventh the Barn Swal- 



.-•— lows were gathering in the marshes 



George Guelph's Migration Notes. at evening to roost. Most of the 



Mr. Guelph's scientific survey of young Red-winged Blackbirds had be- 



wildbird migration on the shores of gun to leave the marshes by the fiC- 



Lake Ontario follows: teenth. As early as the seventeenth 



"To those who love the birds simply of July the Black-crowned Niglit 



from an aesthetic standpoint, to the Herons began to appear, and by the 



student who wishes to become more twenty-third they were seen daily, 



familiar with the birds, or to the nat- They usually continue to straggle 



uralist desiring to make a scientific along until the latter part of Septem- 



